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Respektløs moro?: Satire og parodi i 1960-årenes tv-komedie
... Satire on Danish television is characterised by the blending of two satirical modes: egalitarian and elitist. According to Larsen (2001), egalitarian satire targets a society's political, economic, and cultural power centres, including the media. Egalitarian satire attacks inequalities and injustices created by those disparities of wealth and influence. ...
Focusing on Danish comedian Jonatan Spang’s spoof of the Nordic drama The Bridge via his news parody series Close to the Truth, this article examines how satire simultaneously embodies and performs geopolitics. Through a close reading of Spang’s send-up of contemporary Swedish culture as “pc-totalitarianism”, we interrogate the comedian’s satirical intervention in bilateral cultural relations between Denmark and Sweden. Our approach begins with a critical assessment of Danish national identity vis-à-vis the Swedish “other”, followed by a brief history of Danish political satire, before shifting to an empirical analysis of Spang’s controversial Draman skit across four spatio-cultural scales of engagement. In the concluding section, we integrate the various flows of satirical stereotyping, national identity production (and contestation), and geopolitics embedded in Spang’s “humoristic Marshall Plan” for Sweden. Here, our goal is to provide a multi-tiered assessment of how comedy informs everyday understandings of International Relations (IR) between culturally-proximate nations.
Stupid men and bad women. What housewives could laugh at in the Norwegian «Housewife films»
[This article is printed in the Norwegian academic periodical: Tidsskrift for kjønnsforsking (gender research)].
From 1953 until 1972, Norwegian housewives were invited to local cinemas to watch «Housewife films». These hour-long films were collections of several, +/- 5 minutes long, educational commercials, supplemented with entertaining sections. The commercials concerned objects and methods that promised to improve housework tasks, and thus served to tighten the bond between housework and woman. In the entertainment breaks, however, the ambiguities and incoherencies in this gendered discourse of housework are questioned. This article focuses on the invitation to women's laughter. While a man making a mess in the kitchen is a dominant theme of humour in the early phase, critic of women's failures, for instance excessive shopping, evaporates as the object of laughter in the sixties. Changes in the objects of humour over time are thus identified and tentatively related to changes in the image of the housewife in general.
Keywords: housewife, commercials, humour, discourse, women's laughter, male comedian, 1950s and 1960s, womens history.
Entertainment in the media has often been described in negative terms as phenomenons which are not serious or not informative or it has become a sort of black box in receptionstudies containing a wide variety of pleasure oriented or, emotional experiences with the audience. Entertainment on television has undergone great changes during the last decades and is currently far more complex than earlier, today being part of everyday television and including more genres and mediaplatforms than ever. This project intends to discus new approaches to entertainment in order to better understand the very nature of entertainment on television and it implies 6 empirical oriented subprojects that will explore the nature of different types of programmes.
This article highlights political satire as part of a long tradition of satirical sketch comedy in Danish public service television. Since the late 1990s, however, there have been major changes to this entertainment tradition. Taking these developments as a point of departure, this article argues that political satire has been trying to reinvent itself under these new conditions. By focusing more and more on the media themselves as the target for satirical ridicule, political satire is reshaping the ideological ambiguity typical of this entertainment tradition. In spite of these current efforts, political satire is presently a struggling branch of the satirical sketch comedy tradition in Danish public service television.
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